Combined Bible Commentary
Acts 26:7
See notes on verse 4
See notes on verse 4
UNTO WHICH PROMISE - To the fulfillment of which promise they hope to come; that is, they hope and believe that the promise will be fulfilled, and that they will partake of its benefits. OUR TWELVE TR...
CHAPTER 26 __ 1. The Address of the Apostle Paul (Acts 26:2). 2. The Interruption by Festus and the Appeal to the King (Acts 26:24). 3. The Verdict (Acts 26:30). The opening words of the Apostle a...
PAUL SPEAKS BEFORE AGRIPPA. It is Agrippa the vassal king, not Festus the representative of the sovereign power, who calls on Paul to speak, and to whom Paul addresses himself throughout, even after t...
Agrippa said to Paul, "You have permission to speak on your own behalf." Then Paul stretched out his hand and began his defence. "With regard to the charges made against me by the Jews, King Agrippa,...
THE DEFENCE OF A CHANGED MAN (Acts 26:1-11)...
TWELVE TRIBES. Greek. _dodekaphulon._ Only here. This single word to denote the whole twelve tribes shows that Paul regarded them as one. To him there were no "lost" tribes as fondly imagined to-day....
_unto which promise_ This makes it clear that the promise was the sending of Him in whom all the families of the earth should be blessed. _our twelve tribes_ For the Jews regarded themselves as repres...
Acts 26:1-23. PAUL’S DEFENCE BEFORE AGRIPPA...
τῶν before ἸΟΥΔΑΊΩΝ omitted with אABCEHILP. ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥ͂ at the end of the verse, omitting βασιλεῦ Ἀγρίππα with אBCEI. _Vulg_. puts ‘rex’ at the end. 7. ΕἸΣ ἭΝ, _unto which_ (_promise_). This makes it c...
_PAUL HUMBLY ADDRESSED AGRIPPA ACTS 26:1-11:_ Agrippa gave Paul permission to speak for himself. As Paul began his defense he stretched forth his hand. This action was designed to gain their attention...
ΔΩΔΕΚΆΨΥΛΟΝ (G1429) двенадцать племен. Это значит, что Израиль считал себя состоящим из двенадцати племен (Polhill). ΈΚΤΕΝΕΊ _q._ (G1616) _dat. sing._ рвение, непрекращающаяся интенсивность (TLNT; TD...
UNTO WHICH PROMISE, &C.— Great numbers of the ten tribes returned with the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin from the Babylonish captivity, Ezra 6:16; Ezra 8:35. Luke 2:36 and many of them who did not...
f. Paul's defense before King Agrippa. Acts 25:13 bActs 26:32. Acts 25:13 Now when certain days were passed, Agrippa the king and Bernice arrived at Caesarea, and saluted Festus....
UNTO WHICH PROMISE OUR TWELVE TRIBES, INSTANTLY SERVING GOD DAY AND NIGHT, HOPE TO COME. FOR WHICH HOPE'S SAKE, KING AGRIPPA, I AM ACCUSED OF THE JEWS. _ Unto which promise our twelve tribes_ ( Jame...
1 King Agrippa was a notable figure throughout the closing period of Jewish national life. He was the last prince of the Herodian line. Unlike the Roman governors, who were frequently replaced and mos...
26:7 serving (a-7) As chs. 7.7; 24.14; 27.23....
INSTANTLY] RV 'earnestly.' 9, 10. 'I once found the same difficulty in believing that God does actually raise the dead; and therefore I bitterly persecuted those who proclaimed the Resurrection of Je...
DEFENCE BEFORE AGRIPPA 1-32. St. Paul before Agrippa. This speech, though in form a defence to the Jews, is really intended by St. Luke to be St. Paul's defence to the world—an apology for his whole...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 26 PAUL SPEAKS TO KING AGRIPPA, 26:1-11 V1 Agrippa told Paul, ‘You may now speak for yourself.’ Paul waved his hand. He said, V2 ‘King Agrippa,...
OUR TWELVE TRIBES. — The noun is strictly a neuter adjective: _our twelve-tribed nation._ It will be noted that St. Paul, like St. James (James 1:1), assumes the twelve tribes to be all alike sharers...
εἰς ἣν : unto which promise, not _spem_ (Grotius, Bengel), καταντῆσαι εἰς, _cf._ the same construction with the same verb, Philippians 3:11; Ephesians 4:13, only in Luke and Paul, but never by the for...
PAUL PERMITTED TO SPEAK FOR HIMSELF Acts 26:1 Though Paul's defense before Agrippa is in substance the same as that from the castle stairs at Jerusalem, it differs in the extended description of the...
Agrippa intimated to Paul that he might speak, and the apostle spent a moment in introductory words, and then uttered his great apologia, in which a twofold purpose is evident, first, his own defense,...
Paul Tells Agrippa About his Early Life Though Festus had the full authority of Rome behind him, it was Agrippa who told Paul he was permitted to speak. Paul stretched out his hand and began by sayin...
Especially because I know thee to be expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews: wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently. (4) My manner of life from my youth, which was at the...
The closing Chapter s from 21 to the end of the book are devoted to an episode full of interest and profit Paul's course from Jerusalem to Rome. And here we find ourselves in an atmosphere considerabl...
− 7._Whereunto our twelve tribes. _Paul complaineth before Agrippa, that the state of the Church is come to that pass, that the priests set themselves against the common hope of all the faithful; as i...
Paul's address to king Agrippa furnishes us with the most complete picture of the entire position of the apostle, as he himself looked at it when his long service and the light of the Holy Ghost illum...
UNTO WHICH PROMISE,.... Of the Messiah, and salvation by him; and of the resurrection of the dead and eternal glory, as following upon it: OUR TWELVE TRIBES, INSTANTLY SERVING GOD DAY AND NIGHT HOPE...
Unto which _promise_ our twelve tribes, instantly serving _God_ day and night, hope to come. For which hope's sake, king Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews. Ver. 7. _Instantly serving God_] And yet fi...
_My manner of life from my youth, which was at first_ Την απ ' αρχης, _which from the beginning_, that is, from the beginning of my youth; was _among mine own nation at Jerusalem_ He was not born amon...
HOPE TO COME; hope to experience the fulfilment of the promise. HOPE'S SAKE; for having believed in Christ as the Messiah, and expecting a resurrection through him to endless life....
v. 4. MY MANNER OF LIFE FROM MY YOUTH, WHICH WAS AT THE FIRST AMONG MINE OWN NATION AT JERUSALEM, KNOW ALL THE JEWS;...
UNTO WHICH PROMISE OUR TWELVE TRIBES, INSTANTLY SERVING GOD DAY AND NIGHT, HOPE TO COME. FOR WHICH HOPE'S SAKE, KING AGRIPPA, I AM ACCUSED OF THE JEWS....
At Agrippa's invitation to him to speak, Paul is fully prepared. He expresses his happiness at being privileged to answer for himself to the king, especially because he knew Agrippa to be an expert in...
TO THIS PROMISE OUR TWELVE TRIBES, EARNESTLY SERVING GOD NIGHT AND DAY, HOPE TO ATTAIN. FOR THIS HOPE'S SAKE, KING AGRIPPA, I AM ACCUSED BY THE JEWS. 1. This hope is not a new idea. Abraham, Isaac, J...
"unto which promise our twelve tribes, earnestly serving God night and day, hope to attain. And concerning this hope. am accused by the Jews,. king!"Our twelve tribes" This is an expression that indic...
1-11 Christianity teaches us to give a reason of the hope that is in us, and also to give honour to whom honour is due, without flattery or fear of man. Agrippa was well versed in the Scriptures of t...
TWELVE TRIBES; so St. Paul still reckons them, notwithstanding that ten tribes had been led captive, without returning again to this day. Yet, 1. There were many left by the king of Assyria in their...
Acts 26:7 To G1519 this G3739 our G2257 tribes G1429 earnestly G1722 G1616 serving G3000 (G5723) night...
And now I stand here to be judged for the hope of the promise made of God to our fathers, to which promise our twelve tribes, earnestly serving God night and day, hope to attain. And concerning this h...
Acts 26:7. UNTO WHICH PROMISE OUR TWELVE TRIBES, INSTANTLY SERVING GOD DAY AND NIGHT, HOPE TO COME. Before discussing the deeply interesting and important questions suggested by these few words, which...
_Paul's Defence of Christianity before King Agrippa, his Sister, and the Procurator Festus,_ 1-23. This famous _apologia_ of St. Paul consists of four divisions. The first, Acts 26:2-3, consists of a...
OUR TWELVE TRIBES (το δωδεκαφυλον ημων). A word found only here in N.T. and in Christian and Jewish writings, though δωδεκαμηνον (twelve month) is common in the papyri and δεκαφυλος (ten tribes) in...
Acts 26 St. Paul's Defence before Agrippa. Observe: I. What is the central truth of the Christian system. It is a very suggestive fact that Festus had got hold of the kernel of the whole subject, as...
Acts 26:1. _Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted to speak for thyself. Then Paul stretched forth the hand, and answered for himself:_ I do not suppose Agrippa imagined that Paul would take...
Three times we have in Holy Writ a graphic report of the conversion of Paul. This may be accounted for partly from its being one of the most remarkable events of early sacred history, Paul having had...
CONTENTS: Paul's defense before Agrippa. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Paul, Agrippa, Satan, Festus, Bernice, Caesar. CONCLUSION: When God's servant is given a chance to speak for himself, it is well if h...
Acts 26:1. _Then Paul stretched forth the hand,_ the usual signal to gain attention; it indicates presence of mind in the speaker, and that his auditory is large. Though the notice was short, the cour...
ALL THE JEWS KNOW HOW I HAVE LIVED. His life had been lived in agreement with the Law. They knew about his education in Jerusalem, and that he lived as a Pharisee, the strictest of the Jewish sects [t...
_Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted to speak for thyself._ PAUL BEFORE AGRIPPA Here is all that Christianity ever asked for: an opportunity to speak for itself; and its answer is the one...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 26:1. AGRIPPA SAID UNTO PAUL.—On this occasion Agrippa, not Festus, presided over the tribunal. The “stretching forth” of the hand was the gesture of an orator preparing himsel...
EXPOSITION ACTS 26:1 And for _then, _A.V.; _his _for _the, _A.V.; _made his _defense_ _for _answered for himself, _A.V. AGRIPPA SAID. It was by the courtesy of Festus that Agrippa thus took the chief...
Let's open our Bibles to the twenty-sixth chapter of Acts. Paul was rescued by Lysias, the captain of the Roman guard from the mob that was attempting to beat him to death in Jerusalem on the temple m...
1 Thessalonians 3:10; 1 Timothy 5:5; Acts 20:31; Acts 26:6; Ezra 6:17;
Twelve tribes [δ ω δ ε κ α φ υ λ ο ν]. Only here in New Testament. A collective term, embracing the tribes as a whole. Meyer renders our twelve - tribe - stock. Instantly [ε ν ε κ τ ε ν ε ι α]. Only h...
Our twelve tribes — For a great part of the ten tribes also had at various times returned from the east to their own country, James 1:1; 1 Peter 1:1. Worshipping continually night and day — That is, t...